Decision on the fifth item on the agenda: International cooperation relating to the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185)

Decision on the fifth item on the agenda: International cooperation relating to the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185)

The Governing Body decided:

(a) to hold a meeting involving both maritime and visa experts, within existing resources, to examine the feasibility and to carry out a cost–benefit analysis of the various options, including those set out in GB.320/LILS/5, to address the issues involved in the implementation of the Seafarers’ Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (No. 185), for ratifying and non-ratifying flag States, port States and seafarer supplying States, as well as for shipowners and seafarers;

(b) to consider the outcome of the meeting at a future session of the Governing Body;

(c) that the cost of the meeting, estimated at US$356,100 for a 16–16–16 composition, be financed in the first instance from savings in Part I of the budget or, failing that, through Part II, on the understanding that, should this subsequently prove impossible, the Director-General would propose alternative methods of financing at a later stage in the biennium.

(Document GB.320/LILS/5, paragraph 22, as amended.)